Yep, A Cayman GT4 Rally Car Is As Glorious As You'd Expect

Owing to its limited-production nature, the Porsche Cayman GT4 is already a collector car. That's a shame because a lot of them will be stored away as investments, rarely seeing the light of day. Really, Cayman GT4s should be tearing it up on wet rally stages, like this one.

It's being driven by French driver Gilles Nantet, whose become pretty well known for rallying 997-chassis 911 GT3s in the past. There's not a lot of information out there on Nantet's GT4 (he speaks French in the video interview below), but one obvious upgrade is a big hydraulic handbrake for inducing slides. Other than racing seats, a new center console panel, and a racing steering wheel, the interior looks fairly stock too.

With the right suspension setup, the Cayman GT4 is naturally well-suited to rallying. Its small mid-engine chassis helps the car rotate on tight rally stages, and its naturally aspirated flat-six sounds heavenly.

Porsche actually has quite a history with rally, so we think it'd be cool to see the company re-enter the sport in a major way. You can't let the privateers have all the fun, right?

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